With the poets: a selection of English poetry
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CONTENTS
Preface iii
FOURTEENTH CENTURY
GEOFFRY CHAUCER.
The Squier 29
The Persone 30
Constance and her Child 31
The Last Verses of Chancer 32
SIXTEENTH CENTURY
EDMUND SPENSER.
Una and the Red Cross Knight. 34
The Ministry of Angels. 36
The Bower of Bliss 37
Epithalamlon 37
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Speech of Ulysses to Achilles 40
Mercy 41
Music 42
Sleep 43
Flowers 43
Cleopatra's Barge. 44
Cupid 45
Sonnets 45
Dirge 47
MINOR POETS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
Sonnets 48
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE.
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 49
SIR WALTER RALEIGH.
Reply to Marlowe's. "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" 50
Lines supposed to he written the night before his execution 50
SIR EDWARD DYER.
My Mind to me a Kingdom is 51
MICHAEL DRAYTON.
The Battle of Agincourt 52
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
A Sad Song 54
From "An Honest Man's Fortune." 54
Lines on the Tombs of Westminster Abbey 54
JOSHUA SYLVESTER.
A Contented Mind. 55
JOHN MILTON.
Soliloquy of Satan. 56
Satan 57
Address to Light 58
The Adoration of the Angels 59
The Description of Adam and Eve. 60
The Approach of Evening 60
Adam and Eve's Morning Hymn. 61
Abdlel 62
Lycidas 64
The Might of Innocence. 69
The Light of Virtue 69
Sonnets :
On his being arrived to the Age of Twenty-three 69
On the Massacre late in Piemont. 70
On his Blindness 70
At a Solemn Music 71
On Time 71
Hymn on the Nativity 72
JOHN DRYDEN.
Private Judgment 75
The Unity of the Catholic Church. 75
Lines Printed under the Portrait of Milton 76
Eleonora 76
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687. 78
JOSEPH ADDISON.
The Blessings of Liberty 79
Paraphrase on Psalm xxiii 80
An Ode 81
MINOR POETS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
BEN JONSON.
True Growth 82
Epode from "The Forest" 82
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke 83
Epitaph on a Lady 83
DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN.
Sonnet 83
Tears on the Death of Moeliades. 84
For the Baptist 84
Mary Magdalen 85
SIR HENRY WOTTON.
The Character of a Happy Life. 85
GEORGE HERBERT.
From "The Church Porch" 86
The Quip 87
Virtue
WILLIAM HABINGTON.
"Fix me on some Bleak Precipice" 89
ANONYMOUS.
It is not Beauty I demand 91
EDMUND WALLER.
The Rose's Message 92
Youth and Age 92
ROBERT HERRICK.
A Thanksgiving to God 93
To Blossoms 94
RICHARD LOVELACE.
To Althea from Prison 95
Going to the Wars 96
JAMES SHIRLEY.
A Dirge 96
Thomas Dekker.
Sweet Content. 97
Patience 98
RICHARD CRASHAW.
The Mysteries of the Incarnation. 98
SAMUEL BUTLER.
The Weakness and Misery of Man. 99
HENRY VAUGHAN.
Beyond the Veil 99
The Retreat 100
ABRAHAM COWLEY.
The Wish 101
Extract from "The Royal Society" 102
ANDREW MARVELL.
The Bermudas 108
ALEXANDER POPE.
From "An Essay on Man" 104
On the Character of Addison 105
From "An Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady" 106
The Universal Prayer 107
Ode on Solitude 108
Epitaph on Mrs. Elizabeth Corbett 109
JAMES THOMSON.
From "The Seasons" 109
A Hymn on the Seasons 110
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
The Fall of Greatness 111
WILLIAM COLLINS.
Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson 114
An Ode 115
The Passions 115
THOMAS GRAY.
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard 119
Hymn to Adversity 122
The Bard 124
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
The Traveller 128
The Happiest Spot 129
The Village Clergyman. 129
Stanzas on Woman 131
Retaliation 131
WILLIAM COWPER.
Lines on receiving His Mother's Picture 134
An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. 137
The Castaway 138
Providence 140
The Journey to Emmaus 141
Godin Creation 142
Autobiographical 143
Grace and the World 143
Boadicea. An Ode 145
ROBERT BURNS.
To a Mountain Daisy 146
To a Mouse, on turning her up in her Nest with the Plough 148
A Bard's Epitaph 149
To Mary in Heaven 150
John Anderson, my Jo 151
A Man's a Man for a' that 151
Bannockburn 152
The Muse of Scotland to Robert Burns 153
MINOR POETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
THOMAS TICKELL.
To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison 156
CHARLES WESLEY.
Wrestling Jacob 157
Catholic Love 158
CHARLES CHURCHILL.
"'Tis not the babbling of an idle world" 160
THOMAS CHATTERTON.
Minstrel's Roundelay 160
JAMES BEATTIE.
The Hermit 161
MRS. BARBAULD.
Life 162
ANONYMOUS.
The Lament of the Border Widow. 162
William Hamilton of Bangar.
The Braes of Yarrow 163
LADY ANNE LINDSAY.
Auld Robin Gray 166
LADY NAIRNE.
The Land o' the Leal 167
WILLIAM BLAKE.
Song 168
Introduction to "Songs of Innocence" 169
The Lamb 169
The Tiger 169
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
Mist opening in the Hills 171
Among the Mountains 172
Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of early Childhood 173
Ode to Duty 177
Character of the Happy Warrior 178
Lucy Gray, or Solitude 180
The Force of Prayer 181
Sonnet 183
Thoughts suggested the day after seeing the grave of Burns on the Banks of Nith, near the Poet's residence 183
Hooting to the Owls 185
Yew-Trees 185
Daffodils 186
Lucy 187
Sonnets 187
Milton 187
The World and Nature 187
The Wild Duck's Nest 188
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.
Severed Friendship 188
Love 189
Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni 191
ROBERT SOUTHEY.
A Prayer 198
The Library 193
The Magic Thread 194
SIR WALTER SOOTT.
Nelson, Pitt, and Fox 195
Marmion's Defiance of the Douglas 197
The Chase 199
Loch Katrine 203
The Lay of Rosabelle 203
Lochinvar 204
County Guy 205
The Sun upon the Weird law Hill 206
JAMES HOGG.
Kilmeny 206
A Boy's Song 209
LORD BYRON.
From "The Bride of Abydos" 210
Stanzas for Music 211
The Ocean 211
Before the Battle of Waterloo 212
The Death of Henry Kirke White. 214
The Isles of Greece 214
On the Day I complete my Thirty-sixth Year 216
THOMAS MOORE.
My Birthday 217
Dear Harp of my Country 218
This World is all a Fleeting Show 219
The Harp that once through Tara's Halls 219
The Minstrel Boy 219
The Meeting of the Waters 220
CHARLES LAMB.
Lines written in my own Album. 220
Old familiar Faces 221
LEIGH HUNT.
The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit. 222
Abou Ben Adhemand the Angel 223
To T. L. H., six years old, during a Sickness 223
JOHN KEATS.
Madeline. in her Chamber 224
Hyperion's Gloom 225
The Titans 226
Apollo 227
La belle Dame sans Mercy 228
On first looking into Chapman's Homer 229
On leaving some friends at an Early Hour 229
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.
The Poet 230
Adonais : an Elegy on the Death of John Keats. 281
The Cloud 238
Ode to the West Wind 239
Stanzas written in Dejection near Naples 241
To-- 242
FELICIA HEMANS.
A Ballad of Roncesvalles 242
The Homes of England 243
A Dirge 244
The Graves of a Household 244
Casablanca 245
THOMAS CAMPBELL.
Ye Mariners of England 246
The Battle of the Baltic 247
Hohenlinden 249
The Soldier's Dream 249
THOMAS HOOD.
The Deathbed 250
The Bridge of Sighs 250
SAMUEL ROGERS.
Homan Life 252
A Mother's Love 253
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.
The Sleep 253
Cowper's Grave 254
A Child Asleep 256
The Cry of the Children 257
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH.
Come Back! 260
"With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning" 261
Say not, the Struggle naught availeth 261
Come home, come home 262
Qua Cursum Ventas 262
"What went ye out for to see" 263
Where are the great, whom thou wouldst wish to praise thee? 264
CHARLES KINGSLEY.
The Sands of Dee 264
A Farewell 264
Lorraine 265
MINOR POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
HENRY KIRKE WHITE.
To an Early Primrose 265
CHARLES WOLFE.
The Burial of Sir John Moore 266
BISHOP HEBER.
Hymn to the Seasons 267
From Bishop Heber's Journal. 267
Epiphany. 268
BLANCO WHITE.
Night and Death 269
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.
"A wet sheet and a flowing sea" 269
HARTLEY COLERIDGE.
On the Blank Leaf of a Bible 269
Mary Magdalene 270
JAMES MONTGOMERY.
The Common Lot 270
JOHN WILSON.
The Evening Cloud.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.
The Speech of Icilius 272
Lines written after his Defeat at the Edinburgh Election 273
Epitaph on a Jacobite 275
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.
Sweet Scents 275
The Shell 276
Rose Aylmer 276
On his Seventy-fifth Birthday 276
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER.
A Lost Chord 276
JOHN KEBLE.
First Sunday after Epiphany 277
Second Sunday after Easter 278
EDWARD, LORD LYTTON.
The Desire of Fame 280
ALEXANDER SMITH.
Forgetfulness 281
A Dream 282
The Dying King 282
Duty and Fame 282
THOMAS CARLYLE.
To-Day 288
Adieu 283
ARTHUR PENRYHN STANLEY.
Ash Wednesday 284
The Untravelled Traveller 285
GEORGE ELIOT.
"Oh, may I join the choir invisible" 286
ANNA KETITIA WARING.
Thy Will be Done 287
ANONYMOUS.
The Nightmare 288
A Ripple on the Lake 290
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